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In 2022, UN Special Rapporteurs stated that they were "especially concerned that these spills severely affect the right to life... the right to potable water & the right to a clean, healthy... environment free of toxic substances.”
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UN Calls Out Polluting Argentine Mine | Mining Watch Canada
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10 yrs after the first spill at Barrick Gold’s Veladero mine, in Argentina, that released toxic substances into downstream watersheds causing irreparable harm to the Jáchal river & downstream communities,
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continues to demand justice!
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10 años del derrame en Veladero, una herida abierta en la Cordillera de San Juan
YouTube video by Huarpe Tv
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🙌 PEOPLE POWER!

This Saturday, the Ecuadorian government announced that it has revoked the environmental license for the Loma Larga project!

This is the result of community power and peaceful resistance!
DPM Metals must abide by the law, listen to communities and definitively cancel the project!
Photo credit: Sin Etiquetas +593. Protesters flood the streets in Cuenca, Ecuador for the protection of water and the paramo de Kimsakocha, carrying signs and banners in the massive September 16th protested dubbed the 5th River. Photo credit: Sin Etiquetas +593. Protesters carry a large demon effigy with the name of the mining company threatening their water source on the front: Dundee precious metals. Photo credit: Accion Ecologica.
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MiningWatch congratulates the Tŝilhqot’in National Government on their historic, long fought agreement - Teẑtan Biny Gagaghut'i, which was officially celebrated this weekend!

📸: Tŝilhqot’in National Government
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Other organizers of the March for Protection of Water in Cuenca, including the Cuenca Water Council (Cabildo por el Agua de Cuenca in Spanish), have also being target of criminalization, arbitrary detentions, and even frozen bank accounts.
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"The government seeks to criminalize us with fabricated crimes, when our only 'crime' is defending water and protecting Kimsakocha." said Lauro Sigcha, president of the Federation of Indigenous and Campesino Organizations of Azuay (FOA)
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The Ecuadorian government been intensifying its persecution of water defenders and social organizations, and harassing water defenders, by surveilling their homes and offices, and the Tarqui community center.
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In a press conference this week, water defenders, Indigenous organizations, trade unions, and student unions denounced the criminalization of social protest in Azuay since the Massive March for Protection of Water in Cuenca on September 16.

📸: FOA Azuay
A photograph of the press release sent out to the media by Indigenous organizations, water defenders, and trade and student unions in Azuay, Ecuador on September 30th.
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Glad to see Green Party Leader Elizabeth May amplifying the demands of the Xinka people to permanently shut down the Escobal mine - owned by Vancouver-based Pan American Silver!

And we are also curious about when the CORE will have a new ombudsperson again, and be given real teeth to do its work.
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When Elizabeth May, Leader of the Green Party of Canada, asked why the office that investigates human rights abuses by Canadian companies abroad has been left vacant for months, the Minister for International Trade had no answer. Watch the full exchange here:
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"Vendredi passé à Malartic, lors du passage de François Legault, j’ai été témoin d’un acte de violence politique dont je n’avais jamais entendu parler au Québec, en près d’une décennie à défendre les gens face aux activités minières"

Lire l'article: www.journaldemontreal.com/2025/09/27/l...
La loi et l’ordre, même pour le premier ministre?
Vendredi passé à Malartic, j’ai été témoin d’un acte de violence politique dont je n’avais jamais entendu parler au Québec.
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As strikes and mass protests rock Ecuador, three Canadian mining projects are caught in the crosshairs: SilverCorp's El Domo, DPM Metals' Loma Larga and Atico's La Plata project.

Protesters are demanding all three environmental licenses be canceled.

Full article: www.biv.com/news/resourc...
Ecuador suspends Canadian-owned mining licence after mass protests
Critics accuse Ecuador's president of a conflict of interest due to his family's investments in a Canadian mining firm that could be shielded by a pending Canada-Ecuador free trade agreement.
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Communities peacefully resisting #SilverCorpMetals #ElDomo-Curipamba Inc $SVM.TO project demand answers at AGM
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Tens of thousands of people have taken to the streets/blocked highways in a nationwide strike led by the CONAIE

One demand of the strike is that the Ecuadorian govt annul the environmental/mineral exploitation licenses granted to SilverCorp $SVM.TO Curipamba-El Domo project
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While shareholders gather in Vancouver, Canada, for Silvercorp Metals Inc.’s AG $SVM.TO, Ecuador is experiencing widespread unrest.

Read our joint press release: shorturl.at/8yT9X
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Marisol Guerra et Marta Muñoz ont parcouru le Canada pour demander le respect de la décision du Parlement xinca, un peuple autochtone du Guatemala, qui a refusé de donner son consentement au projet minier El Escobal de Pan American Silver.
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[Reportage]  Des Autochtones du Guatemala en tournée au Canada pour dénoncer une mine | RCI
Le projet minier El Escobal appartient à Pan American Silver, dont le siège social est situé à Vancouver.
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Representatives from the governments of *Canada, France, and Germany appeared at the court yesterday to observe the ruling, a reminder that governments and international civil society are watching this case closely.
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Once again, the 5 prominent Water Defenders who faced politically-motivated charges have been declared innocent!!
International Allies against Mining in El Salvador call:
✅The Salvadoran Attorney General to abstain from further legal action
✅ All civil liabilities are dropped
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NEW: Today, a tribunal in El Salvador found the five Water Defenders who faced politically-motivated charges innocent of all charges. ✊

International Allies against Mining in El Salvador celebrates this outcome and demands that all civil liabilities are finally dropped. Statement:
International Allies against Mining in El Salvador Applauds Judicial Ruling That Finds All Five Water Defenders Innocent of All Charges - Institute for Policy Studies
The five prominent Water Defenders who faced politically-motivated charges are heroes of El Salvador — and they should never have been arrested.
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“There’s a lot of entities that come in, they take from the north and give nothing back,” [Alexandra] Bridges says. “People are really changing their entire lives to accommodate an industry that is designed to extract resources as quickly and efficiently as possible.”
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Massive nickel mine planned north of Timmins, Ontario | The Narwhal
Amid a critical minerals rush, Canada Nickel’s Crawford mine project offers risks and opportunities for Timmins, in northern Ontario.
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PRESS RELEASE: Xinka Leaders Call on Canada to Respect Self-determination over Canadian-owned mine

“We are calling on Canadian authorities to publicly express support for our right to self-determination and our decision to deny consent for the Escobal mine”

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Xinka Leaders Call on Canada to Respect their Self-Determination over a Canadian-owned Mine in Guatemala | Mining Watch Canada
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"We came to tell Canada that the Xinka people have decided that they do not want the mining company to continue operating in our territory, and we are calling for its permanent closure," said Marisol Guerra, one of the two Xinka delegates visiting Canada.
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"Vinimos a decirle a Canadá que el pueblo xinka ha decidido que no quiere que continúe la empresa minera en nuestro territorio y pedimos el cierre definitivo", dijo Marisol Guerra, una de las dos delegadas xinkas de paso por Canadá.
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Marisol Guerra y Marta Muñoz están recorriendo el este de Canadá pidiendo "se respete la decisión del Parlamento Xinka", pueblo indígena de Guatemala, de negar el consentimiento a las actividades de la mina El Escobal de la canadiense Pan American Silver.

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[Reportaje] Delegadas Xinkas explican en Canadá su rechazo a mina canadiense | RCI
El proyecto de mina Escobal es de Pan American Silver, con sede en Vancouver.
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